June, 2021 archive
Being While Black 0
In more news of the vile, a black business owner was assaulted for being:
“Black b-word, n-word, talked about my hair, ‘You black women with your weaves,’ ” she said.
And it got worse from there.
Critical of Critical Critics 0
At The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Georgia’s 2017 Teacher of the Year is taken aback at the movement to forbid the teaching of “critical race theory” in public schools (where, as a matter of fact, it generally is not taught, being largely a topic in academia). Here’s tiny bit from her article (emphasis added):
I commend the entire piece to your attention.
Recommended Listening 0
R. Holmes and Company by John Kendrick Bangs.
If you are a Sherlock Holmes devotee, as am I, you will get a big kick out of this pastiche. Raffles Holmes is the son of the marriage of Sherlock Holmes and the daughter of the legendary thief and cracksman, Raffles.* His Raffles side and his Holmes side continually struggle (though the Holmes side usually wins). The adventures are marvelously tongue-in-cheek and quite good fun.
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*This, of course, is absolute bosh.
Thanks to William S. Barring-Gould’s biography of Nero Wolfe, we all know that, while wandering in Asia after the affair at Reichenbach Falls, Holmes came across Irene Adler, whom Holmes always referred to as “The Woman,” and the result of their meeting was Nero Wolfe. There is no question that Irene Adler was the only woman in Holmes’s life.
The Unwelcoming 0
At the Kansas City Star, Toriano Porter tells the story of the behavior that greeted a black family when they moved into a new town seeking better schools.
Spoiler Alert: It’s not pretty.
The Pity Party 0
(Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
They Must Be High on Something . . . 0
. . . but, whatever it is, it won’t be Coke.
The ban passed during a Board of Commissioners meeting on May 17 with a 3-2 vote as a direct response to Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey’s comments calling the voting law “unacceptable” and “a step backwards.”
More news of the petty racist stupidity at the link.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Expose your progeny to politeness.
(snip)
Police said the shooting was an accident, but the case remains under investigation and no charges have been filed.
Again, “accident” and “negligence” are not the same thing.
Geeking Out 0
The Fluxbox window manager on Mageia v. 8 with Xclock and GKrellM. The wallpaper is from my collection.
A Big “If” 0
F. T. Rea wonders whether it can happen here. His wonderings are worth a read; a snippet:
Likewise, there have always been loners and perpetual victims who hated the federal government so much that storming the Capitol building would sound like fun. Throw in the gangs, such as the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, maybe some new wave Confederates, etc. And, for that matter, fascism has been lurking in the shadows in this country since the 1930s. After all, fascists and gangsters have a lot in common.
Sadly, in view of what happened January 6, the potential is all too real.
Oxymoron 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of The Roanoke Times asks a question.